Union-garment.



G. W. PEASE. l

UNION GARMENT. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. I0. I9Ie.

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. GEORG-E W. PEASE, OF PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

UNION- GARMENT.

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Specification of Let-ters Patent.

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Application led September 10, 1918. Serial No. 253,381.

T0 all whom t may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. PEAsn, a citi-Zen of the United States, and a resident of Pittslield, county of Berkshire, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful UniolrGarment, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to' one piece or union garments and more particularly to work suits or overalls, and has for its object to produce such an article of apparel as will yield or give in response to movements of the body of the wearer without placing undue strains on the material of the 'garment or on the stitches.

A further object is to provide means for excluding dirt and dust from the inside of the garment when in use.

These and further objects will more fully appear in the following specification and accompany/*inpdrawings considered together or separateI I have illustrated oneembodiment of my invention in the accompanyingdrawings in which like parts are designated by similar reference characters, and in which- Figure l is a rear view of a garment embodying my invention. Y

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the back of the garment, the position of the section being indicated by the line 2*;2 in Fi 4.

Fig. 3 is a detail elevation of the rear of the garment as viewed from the outside.

y Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the` line 4-4 of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is al detail elevation of the back of the garment.' as viewed from the inside.

This nventibn relates to garments of the same general, ype as that shown in my Patent No. 1,272,706, issued July 16, 1918, which is provided with an opening in the front eX- tending from the collar to the crotchto permit donning and removal of the garment and which may be closed by means of buttons and buttonholes.

In carrying out the embodiment of the invention illustrated in this application I provide a. garment having a body or upper portion 1 and a trousers or nether portion 2. The upper and nether portions are attached together at the front and back, and a waistband 8 is permanently attached to the body portion from one side of the front opening entirely around the garment to the other side of the said opening, and when the opening is closed the said waistband completely encrcles the body of the wearer. The waistband 3 is also permanently secured to the trousers portion from one side Vof `the front opening to the other with the exception of a short distance at the back. The unattached portion of the waistband will produce a short slit 4 and the distance from one end of said slit to the other willr constitute the only point in the girth of the garment where 1n the upper and nether portions are not per manently secured together. It wil-l be understood, however, that the waistband may be omitted and the garment formed of material of continuous length from the bottoms of the legs to the collar, in which case the slit 4 may be cut through theJ material of which the garment is formed.

A member 5 forming a portion of the trousers and of a width at least equal to that of the length of the slit 4 extends upward inside ofthe body portion 1 andi-s secured to the body portionV at a dista-nce above the slit and with its upper edge 6 preferably parallel thereto. The member 5 is preferably stitched to the back of the garment on parallel lines extended from the ends of the slit 4 4upward to the upper edge 6 of the member. The mem-ber 5 therefore covers the slit on the vinside of the garment and having a portion, the edgey 6, -unattachedf to the body will permit of relative 'movement' of the body and trousers portions at that portion between the ends of the slit.

The slit 4 providing an opening from the outside of the garment and the member 5 being unattached to the body at the upper edge of the member will provide -a passage between the back of the garment the member whereby dirt and dust from the outside may iind its way through the slit 4, and out over the edge "6' land soil the person of the wearer or such clothing as may be worn under the garment.

To provide against this contingency I employ a baille element 7 which is stitched to the inside of the body portion l a short distance above the edge 6 and parallel thereto and to the slit 4. The lower edge 8 ofthe element extends to within a short distance of the slit 4 and is parallel thereto and is not attached to the garment. The vertical edges of the element are stitched to the body portion preferably by the same stitches whereby the member 5 is secured in position.

The element will lie between the body oi the wearer and the member 5 and will eii'eotually prevent the entrance of dirt and dust while at the same time it will not act to prevent relative movement of the body and trousers portions of the garment in response to bending and stooping movements of the wearer.

In practice I prefer to stitch the member 5 to the trousers portion in line with the stitching 9 in the upper edge of the waistband and to stitch the element 7 to the member by means ot' parallel rows of stitches lll- 10. When the element is in position on the member the lower edge 8 of the elementwill be approximately in line with the upper edge of the waistband 3 and its upper edge will extend a short distance above the edge 6 of the member.

When the garment is assembled a row of stitching 1l is run upward from one endof the slit e, through the vertical edges of the member 5 and element 7, across the top of the element, and ,then downward securing the opposite vertical edges of the member and element to the back of the body portion l, and then downward to the bottom line of the waistband. The thread used in stitch ing the member and element to the body portion 1 will bev in such close proximity to patent the thread by means ot which the element is preliminarily attached to the member 5 as to appear as a single line of stitches.

t is obvious that the member 5 instead of' being stitched to the trousers portion may bel integral therewith and I have so illustrated the member in Fig. 4.

Instead of stitching the element to the member and sewing both to the body of the garment the stitching l0` may be omitted and the member and element be attached together and to the body by means of the stitches 11 or in any other approved manner.

In accordance with the provisions of the statutes, I have described the principle of my invention, together with the device which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof; but I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that the invention may be carried out in other ways.

Having now described my invention what Copies of this patent may be obtained for I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. A garment comprising a body portion and a trousers portion permanently united at the back and front, there being a portion of the garment at the back thereof at which the body portion is not secured to the trousers portion, a member attached to the trousers portion and extending upward inside of the body portion, means for securing said member to the body portion at a point distant from that part of the body portion which is free of the trousers portion, an element stitched along its upper and side edges to the inside of the back of the body portion to form a pocket open at its bottom only, the upper portion oi' the member being disposed within the pocket whereby the member may be moved relatively to the body por tion and the element.

2. A garment comprising a body portion and a trousers portion permanently united at the back and front, there being a substantially horizontal slit at the back ot the garment, the length of said slit being less than the distance across the back of the garment, a member attached to the back of the trou sers portion and extending upward inside of the body portion above the slit, means for securing the side edges of said member to the body portion in lines substantially perpendicular to the slit, the upper edge ofthe member being unattached to the body portion, an element stitched to the body portion above the unattached edge of the member, the sides ofthe element being stitched to the body portion and to the member, the upper edge of the member being disposed between the element and the back of the body portion of the garment and being unattached to the element, the lower edge of the ele` ment being unattached to the member or to the body portion.

IThis specification signed and witnessed this 9th day of September, 1918.

GEORGE W. PEASE.

Witnesses J. F. COLEMAN, A. E. BENTON.

Washington, D. C. 

